Theorists - Gender And Occupation Flashcards
Herring 1982 - Workplace and gender
Herring – 1992 - In an email discussion which took place on a linguistics ‘distribution list’, five women and 30 men took part, even though women make up nearly half the members of the Linguistic Society of America and
36% of subscribers to the list.
Men’s messages were twice as long, on average, as women’s. Women tended to use a personal voice, e.g. ‘I am intrigued by your comment …’. The tone adopted by the men who dominated
the discussion was assertive: ‘It is obvious that …’.
Holmes 1998
Holmes - various studies from 1998 - Women managers seem to be more likely to negotiate consensus than
male managers, they are less likely to just ‘plough through the agenda’, taking time to make sure everyone genuinely agrees with what has been decided.
Holmes 2005 & Marra 2002
Holmes – 2005 and Holmes and Marra – 2002 - Contrary to popular belief, women use just as much humour as
men, and use it for the same functions, to control discourse and subordinates and to contest superiors, although they are more likely to encourage supportive and collaborative humour
Eakins & Eakins 1976
Eakins & Eakins – 1976 - In seven university faculty meetings, the men spoke for longer. The men’s turns ranged from 11 to 17 seconds, the women’s from 3 to 10 seconds.
Edelsky 1981
In a series of meetings of a university department faculty committee, men took more and longer turns and did more joking, arguing, directing, and soliciting of responses during the more structured segments of meetings.
During the ‘free-for-all’ parts of the meetings, women and men talked equally, and women joked, argued, directed and solicited responses more than men
Eisenberg - 1990/1991
When role-playing delivering criticism to a co-worker about errors in a business letter, men showed more concern for the feelings of the person they were criticising when in the subordinate role, while women showed more concern when in the superior role.
